Oscar Wilde Quotes

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

The people happen to love me. Forgive your friend a little vanity as it's only between ourselves ... You are now ready to tell me that popular fame is a most uncertain thing. You are right. I blush at having valued myself so much upon it.

Quest for popularity is probably a disqualification for greatness.

I'm not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I'm a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me.

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

All I care about is what the boys at the fork of the creek think of me.

He whose honor is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am I bad, am I being judged, who likes me, who doesn't like me...'

I don't really worry too much about what people say. I guess it's good that people talk about me.

I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah, that sounds great.

I'm in the greatest band in the world, period. End of story. We're the best.

Irrespective of my father's support, if people don't like me there's nothing my family status can do about it.

When you're the cool guy, you don't know how to take people not liking you. I've already been there, done that.

You're always going to have fans, and you're always going to have people that hate you. The people around me, they know who I am, and that's really all I care about.

I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.